CALL FOR PAPERS

4th Annual World Open Innovation Conference

Conference Theme

This year’s conference theme is “Strategic and Public Policies for Open Innovation”. This theme reflects the increasing interest in and practice of open innovation within industry and policy making. Open innovation policies are designed to promote a course of action that encourages knowledge flows across organizational boundaries in a way that it benefits relevant stakeholders, including individual, organizations and the society at large. In order to better understand how open innovation can become embedded into firm strategies and into national and global innovation systems, more research on open innovation “policies” is needed. For instance, what kinds of policy levers (e.g., IP systems, competition policies, innovation policies, etc.) need to be designed in order to promote and support open innovation initiatives? What are the mechanisms through which such policies achieve their impact? Which contingencies do strategic and public policies generate in the context of open innovation? What is the role of Shared Value practices inside corporations, in shaping policies that support and sustain innovation? We hope to explore these and other questions during the conference.

Paper Topics

Besides specific submissions in relation to the above-mentioned conference theme, the conference more generally seeks original research on a wide range of topics related to open innovation that contribute to a better multi-level understanding of open innovation.

Following Bogers et al.’s (2017) recent conceptualization of open innovation “research categories” that embrace a multi-level perspective, we are seeking submissions related to the following themes